The MC Rove Tour comes to Canada!

Ah it's the season of events for British Columbia, Mellencamp is on his way to Vancouver, rumours of a Springsteen tour continue to percolate and now, an event that is sure to generate no shortage of controversy, Karl Rove comes to Vancouver for a one night show.

The former aide to President George Bush, best known as "Bush's Brain" is set to appear at the Vancouver Art Gallery on February 18th, for a dinner talk sponsored by the Fraser Institute.

Tickets cost 500 dollars a pop, 750 for a couple (makes a great post Valentine's date!) and if you can find a group of 10 fellow travellers of the right or the left you can get in for 5000 dollars. But don't be tardy; they are apparently moving fast as they say.

The Rove speaking engagement most likely will be one of those Vancouver events that bring out a rather polarized populace, owing to Mr. Rove's celebrity. The hope of the Fraser Institute is that the night will provide a lively discussion of the American election prospects among other current topics of interest.

Which we suspect will be more than possible, considering the Georgia Strait blogs are making much of the upcoming event, which is sure to provide a colourful reception line for Mr. Rove on Monday night.

From left to right, to those who just don't like bad rap acts, a night with Karl Rove should provide more than a few interesting sound bites for the evening news...